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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Administrative Monitoring Dashboard to see (and notify) all currently active logged in platform users and the services being used

This activity monitoring capability assists administrators to gauge system utilization and performance planning as well as better planning of maintenance such as upgrades. Knowing which users may be affected when pods or services need to be restar...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Delivered

Permanent fix for Tcplisten rocketing cpu when tenable scan garbage hits port

Tcplisten job rockets into cpu spike/loop when tenable scan throws garbage at the port Subscriptions stopped during this cannot be restarted unless ending of subsystem or dmtcp This is an exposure as any bad actor could act upon that port not just...
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

High logging volume on SYSUTILX during utilities execution

Swiss Re observe up to 50% of the log volume is written for SYSUTILX, which is generally updated on phase changes across utilityexecutions, as well as during checkpoint/commit interval. A deeper analysis shows:- Most of the records being logged co...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Auto start Zookeeper, Solr and Kafka after WAS/Engine restart

We are actively using Information Analyzer enterprise wide and with multiple teams. Zookeeper and Solar Services needs restart after IIS WAS and Engine restart, IA thin client error out it needs zookeeper/solar restart Auto start Zookeeper, Solr a...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

XStream agent should not try to activate supplemental logging for tables which already have it

We've seen the XStream Oracle agent trying to activate supplementar logging during an agent restart and during subscription restarts. On a specific customer environment this becomes very critical, because the application maintains open transaction...
9 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Provide means to limit number of retries following unable to establish connection

This idea is related to real life scenario we encountered in production - we raised a case but we were advised CDC is working as designed and we should raise an AHA idea. Currently we have a number of subscriptions defined/active across a number o...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Enable CLI that allows to modify resource groups' preference level for a consumer

IBM Spectrum Symphony product GUI allows users to choose more than one resource groups for a consumer and set their preference level to seek compute capacity when there is demand. However, there is no CLI (command Line interface) that allows users...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 7 Delivered

RStudio or Python Runtime environments are automatically restarted when memory limits are reached

RStudio or Python Runtime environments are automatically restarted when memory limits are reached without any information to the data scientist and all results are gone. A better behavior would be if the application RStudio or Jupither/lab would g...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Delivered

Provide a smarter refresh mechanism for RLF

Since Db2 version 12 changes in the RLF (resource limit facility) control tables no more longer become active automatically.After updating/inserting/deleting rows in the RLF control table we have to stop and restart RLF via a command. Please provi...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide an API for DSX

One really nice feature with Bluemix is that it is possible to automate creating and setting up services and applications. It would be good if an API existed for DSX so that we could automate tasks like: - create and delete projects - add/remove...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 3 Delivered